"in One Respect Grant," Said Colonel

McFall of St. Louis, who served with him before Vicksburg, "was a source of great worriment to the commanding officers taking part in his councils of war. This carne from his reticence during the councils and his prompt individual action afterward. Grant would sit and listen to all the others had to say, smoking his cigar and occasionally taking a drink as this hospitable refreshment might be passed around. Then, when the talk was all over and everyone had expressed his opinión as to what should be done, Grant would leave the tent and go to Rawlins, his chief of staff, and begin issuing orders. No one knew to what decisión he had arrived, and they would have no idea what the next movement was to be until their orders were received. Especially to General John A. Logan, who commanded the división of which my regiment was a part after McPherson was killed, was this trait of Grant's a trial. n it all!" Logan would say in his impetuous way, "if Grant would only give us some idea of what he was thinking about! But no, he just listens without a word, and then, when we've told all we know and think, off he goes to Rawlins, and that's the last we see or hear of him until his orders lor the next movement come to us!"